Covid-19: Cameroon to receive more than 1 million vaccine doses ‘shortly’ – PM

YAOUNDÉ, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Cameroon, one of the countries inAfrica worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, is set to receive “veryshortly” more than one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Prime MinisterJoseph Dion Ngute said. Pointing to “a deterioration in the epidemiological situation” in thecountry, Dion Ngute told state radio…

Gunmen kill 16 in northwest Nigeria

KANO (Nigeria), March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gunmen have killed 16 people and injured nine others in a village in northwestern Nigeria near the border with Niger, a local official said. The pre-dawn attack on Tara village, in Sokoto state, is the latest in aseries of attacks by criminal gangs known…

Covid-19: ‘Coronavirus can’t kill me now’ – Africans cheer rollout of COVAX vaccinations

A man receives Nigeria’s first COVAX jab in capital, Abuja KIGALI (Rwanda), March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda started inoculating frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable citizens against COVID-19 on Friday as Africa, the world’s poorest continent and home to 1.3 billion people, stepped up its vaccination campaigns.While some…

Covid-19: Relief bill back on track after US Senate impasse broken

WASHINGTON, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Senate broke a logjam late Friday when a centrist Democrat compromised on a key provision of the Covid relief package, setting the $1.9 trillion bill on a likely path to passage. Democrats had struggled to keep Senator Joe Manchin’s support for expanded unemployment…

Covid-19: Brazil is the new world epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic

BRASILIA, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — Brazil became the new world epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, surpassing the United States in new daily infections while setting another record in the number of daily deaths from Covid-19. The Johns Hopkins University count indicated that the US counted 63,816 new Covid-19 infections in the last…

Salvadoreans protest against December 1981 El Mozote massacre impunity

SAN SALVADOR, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — El Salvador’s human rights defenders, survivors, and relatives of victims of the El Mozote massacre protested in front of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) headquarters to demand justice for the crime. “Thirty-nine years have passed and there is still no justice for the…

Bolivia gets ready for regional elections

LA PAZ, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — The Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (Uniore) ‘s mission arrived in Bolivia on Friday to monitor the departmental elections Sunday, March 7. The Union’s mission representative Pamela San Martín said that “on behalf of Uniore, 12 people from seven member countries are present and…

Mexico: Gangs are likely to influence in elections in 7 states – Security Secretariat

MEXICO CITY, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Rodriguez reported on seven states where there is a higher risk of organized crime interference in June’s subnational elections. Morelos, Guerrero, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Sinaloa, and Jalisco are the states where there are risks of pressures and…

Ecuador’s interior minister quits over deadly prison riots

United Nations representatives had called for ‘a prompt and impartial investigation’ into the most recent deadly prison riot QUITO, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ecuador’s interior minister has resigned in the wake of recent simultaneous riots in four prisons that left 79 people dead. “It is my own personal decision to…

Car bomb explosion kills at least 20 in Somalia’s capital

MOGADISHU, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A car bomb explosion caused at least 20 deaths and dozens of injured on Friday in  Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the authorities reported. It said 30 others were injured. The terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack via radio Andalus. The suicide car bomb exploded…